With
participation of the federal agency of culture, Russian Gnessin Academy
of Music and the Friedrich Lips Fund the traditional XXI International
Festival "Bayan and bayanists" took place in the concert
hall of the Russian Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow from December
9 to 13th, 2009. (Picture left - E. Seit-Abdulov)
In the opening concert laureats of international competitions 2009
were acclaimed by the public: D. Eliasson, K. Tarabrina, A. Sysoyev,
V. Kiselev, R. Batalov, I. Purits and S. Shmelkov. As the year of 2010
will be under the sign of cultural partnerships between Russia and
France, the second part of this concert was dedicated to French music
presented by Duet "Paris-Moscow" (D. Emorine, R. Jbanov)
and Fench accordionists F. Brut and P. Lavale, all of them winners
of international competitions, too.
N.
Vlassov, student of V. Golubnichy at the Glinka-Conservatory
in Nichny Novgorod, proved his already great mastership not only by
performing a solo recital (works by A. Cholminov, F. Couperin and
F. Busoni) but also with his ensemble "Con forza" (accordion,
violin, piano, guitar, percussion, double bass and soprano - picture right): performance
of R. Galliano's "Concert" and their own work "Spring".
Of course the crowd was asking for some encores.
It belongs to the tradition of the festival to organize lectures about
interesting topics. This year the instrumental factory located in
Tula presented their instruments "Mir" and "Rus",
young bayanists performing bayan works followed by discussion under
the direction of F. Lips and A. Gataullin. The "Creative School
MASTER-CLASS" presented different types of harmonica instruments:
concertina, bandoneon, vibrandoneon, musette, variété,
jazz and last but not least the digital accordion. A. Selivanov led
through this part of the event.
The
absolute highlight of the whole festival - not only because of the
completely filled concert hall of the Gnessin Music Academy - was
the concert of A. Skliarov (picture right) in the occasion of his
60th birthday. He
performed his program with works by E. Derbenko (picture above), V.
Novikov, R. Galliano, A. Nayunkin with a unique technical and musical
mastership, outstanding not only in Russia but all over the world.
Nowadays the Bayan Trio of Lipezk (S. Eltchaninov, V. Karpy and V.
Melnik) truly can be considered as one of the best actually performing
trios. Because of celebrating their 35th anniversary of concert activity
they were invited to this year's bayan festival.
Former winner of the Klingenthal competition (1982) E. Seit-Abdulov
(picture top left) and Finnish accordionist Janne Rättyä
were the soloists of the 4th evening.
Seit-Abdulov showed a big variety
in his program with works by C. Franck, D. Klebanov, F. Angelis, R.
Ibadlayev and C. Saint-Saëns / F. Liszt. Rättyä is
one of the leading young accordionists representing the Scandinavian
school using new techniques and many sound effects in such works as
Lindberg's "Jeux d'anches". He started his program with
Frescobaldi (Capriccio di durezze) and Bach (excerpts of the "Goldberg
Variations"), finishing with G. Ping's "Dance - Fury".
The
final concert was marked by entertainment. E. Derbenko, primarily
known as a composer, astonished the public during his author's concert
performed by himself and his students. Russian "People's artist"
Valery Kovtun (picture above) together with his trio "Carneval
Akkordeona" charmed the crowd by performing well-known tunes
in breath-taking arrangements.
Surely a historical moment when CIA Vice-President Herbert Scheibenreif presented the CIA Merit Award to bayan legend Yury Ivanovich Kazakov
for his outstanding contributions to the development of the accordion
in the occasion of his 85th birthday on December, 24th 2009.
According
to the tradition (since 1993) the "SILVER DISKs" were conferred
to composer Efrem Podgaits as well as to the Lipezk Trio (picture
right) and accordionists/bayanists V. Belyakov and V. Kovtun for their
artistic merits. Exhibitions and presentations of musical
instruments of chief world producers took place in the foyer of the
concert hall Russian Gnessin Academy of Music throughout the festival.
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